The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-11-19
THE END!
PARSONS, SPIES, FISCHER
AND ENGEL HANGED.
They Pay the Penalty ON the Gailows.
Fischer cries: ''Long Live An
archy ~ as he Expires.
Intense Excitement i'm Chicago
Over The Execution Hut no
Rioting Or Out.breakfng. The
Last Hours of the Anarchists.


CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Parsons Spies,
Engel and Fischer all slept well last
night and all awoke this morning
about the same time. They all ate
heartily at breakfast, which was
composed of beefstesk, coffee. bread
and butter Parsons INDUCED in
fried oysters Rev Mr. Bolton. of
the MethodistEpiscopal church, who
has several times been admitted to
see the prisoners, visited them at
eight o'clock this morning and talk
ed to them about their spiritual well
fare.
A little later all four of them asked
for stimulants When it was given
to them, all drank but Engel who
took port wine.
The prisoners then received their
mail. and wrote numerous letters TO
friends. which occupied them until
nine-thirty o'clock.
Mrs Parsons, wife Of one Of the
condemned. men, accompanied by her
children, visited the jail and demand
ed admittance, but was denied. They
positively and stubbornly refused to
go away, and were taken to the pc
lice station and locked up.
New suits of plain black were sent
to Spies and Engel by their friends.
The state Of public mind here in
Chicago is fairly shown by the ire
Il Nf thu
Yesterday the Daily Netes alone
printed and sold more than four
hundred thousand copies by actual
count, number unprecedented in
the history ofjournalism in America.
PRECAUTIONS.
No one but newspaper men and
the city officials were allowed to en-
ter the Jail under any pretext for any
purpose. The top Of the Jail build
ing and numerous other edifices in
the immediate vicinity were crowded
with policemen, all armed with rifles.
The streets were lined with peo-
pie. Nearly one hundred newspaper
men were present.
Gallows about thirty feet wide
reaches to the rail of the first tier of
cells in the Jail.
At eleven-twenty o'clock all of the
prisoners ate final lunches, except
Parsons, who drank strong coffee.
THE DROP.
All of the four prisoners, Parsons,
Spies, Engel and Fischer, walked to
the gallows, at twelve o'clock, entire
ly unassisted by anybody, but sur
rounded by strong guard. Par
sons shuddered while they were being
bound by the officers and while the
warrants for their execution were
being read. Engel, Spies and Fischer
appeared calm and self-possessed
during the ordeal. The nooses were
then fixed about the necks of the
four men, white caps were adjusted
on their heads, and the drop fell
without hitch of any kind. All
four of them were executed at the
same time.
As the drop fell, Fisher cried;
"Long Lire AnarehyP
He died very hard. The neeks OF
the other three were broken instant
ly and they died without struggle.
A strong force of policemen kept
the vast crowds on the outside in
the streets moving all of the time, to
prevent any difficulty or riot.
sCHwAB, FIELDEN AND LINGG.
| Fielder and Schwab, whose sen
fences were committed by Governor
Oglesby to Imprisonment for life are
still in Jail.
Lingg died yesterday evening from
the effects of the cap which he ex-
ploded in his mouth with a lighted
candle. Thus the seven Anarchists
have been disposed Of